AWS just keeps on churning out the hits!
This time it's 3 sweet new improvements for AWS Backup, which is a "fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. AWS Backup automates and consolidates backup tasks previously performed service-by-service, removing the need to create custom scripts and manual processes".
What are these three "sweet" new features? and why should you care?:
AWS Backup now supports cross region backups. Now you can back up your data to a different region, which is great for companies who have availability requirements to keep a backup of critical data in a different region for Disaster Recovery purposes. "Many enterprise AWS customers have strict business continuity policies requiring a minimum distance between two copies of their backup. To help enterprises to meet this requirement, we’re adding the capability to copy a backup to another Region, either on-demand when you need it or automatically, as part of a backup plan".
You can now restore a single file from an EFS file system instead of having to restore the entire file system. This solves a major pain-point in that heretofore, if you only needed to restore a single corrupted or accidentally deleted file, you had to wait for the entire file system to be restored, often times obliterating your Recovery Time Objectives (RTO's). Good riddance to that!
You can now run on demand or scheduled FULL backup and recovery for EC2 instances. Previously, AWS Backup only covered the instance's EBS volumes. But now it will back up everything, including Instance Type, Security Group. Identity Access Management Role and VPC, which all get stored in an AMI, which means you can restore your EC2 instance, in just one step,
WOW! If THAT's not exciting stuff... I dont know what exciting stuff is!
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